savio

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Italian

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Etymology

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From Old Occitan savi, from Vulgar Latin *sapium (wise), from Latin sapidus (delicious, wise). Doublet of sapido, a borrowing from Latin.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsa.vjo/
  • Rhymes: -avjo
  • Hyphenation: sà‧vio

Adjective

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savio (feminine savia, masculine plural savi, feminine plural savie)

  1. wise
  2. sensible

Derived terms

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Noun

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savio m (plural savi)

  1. a wise man
    • mid 13th century, Gherardo Patecchio, Splanamento de li proverbi di Salomone [Explanation of Solomon's proverbs], lines 13–14; collected in Roberto Tagliani, editor, compiled by Maria Luisa Meneghetti, Il manoscritto Saibante-Hamilton 390 - Edizione critica[1], Rome: Salerno Editrice, 2019, →ISBN, page 324:
      Li savi no ’m reprenda s’eu no dirai sì ben
      com’ se vorave dir []
      (northern Italy)
      May the wise not reproach me, if I do not retell as well as one should retell []

References

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  • savio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Serbo-Croatian

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Participle

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savio (Cyrillic spelling савио)

  1. masculine singular active past participle of saviti